gubford



(No M0681.)

P. P. GIBFORD.

GAME APPARATUS.

Patented 8111 10; 1888.

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PATENT Friesw GAM E APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION Grilling-j. part of Letters Paient No. 386,007, dated July-10, 188k.

.30 it, known that l, liltlNK (lim onn, a citizen of ihe United States, residing at Englewood, in the couniy oi Cook and State of lilinois, have invented a certain new and useful improvement in Game Apparatus; and I do declare lhv iollowine' to be a lull, clear, and exam. description of the i nvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art io'which it zwpertains to make and use the same, refer en e being hadio the accoi'upanying drawing, and to Mac letters and figures of reference marke tlmrcoinwhichformsapartofthis speciiication.

lily invention relates to a new and improved game which is .d signed for the use of two or more players, as will be full y understood from the follon ing description and claim. taken in connection with the annexed drawing, which shows a general View of the board.

A A A A designate fourrectangular wings which are composed of squares arranged in' parallel rows" at right angles to each other,the said squares alternating in colors, as shown and indicated .by, say, black squares D, and, say, while squares E. Looking at the arrange merit of the black and while squares obliqncl y, ilic black are, in continuous rows and the while are in continuous rows, like ihe squarcson an ordinary checker-board. Inside oithe said wings a similar arrangement cl" black s uares I) and white squares i l, eonsti tutiugwhat I ('lcnominatc the infield, which squares are in right, left, and oblique lines Serial No. :5 I). (No model,

with the squares forming the four wings A,

colors, and of colors diii'eriug from the colors I of the wing and infield squares. In the center of all the squares is the goalT, which maybe circular and ornam'entcdin any fanciful man nor.

lead the game four handed or royal checkers, and it is in the nature of the ordinary game of checkers or d ra ugh ts,s0 far as the moves and jumps are concerned; but thcrows ,or squares are arranged-around a centrally-lo- V cated square 0r-goal,as Ihavc above described. P

Having described myinwnitioinwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lei-tors Patent,

' The withiudeseribed gainc'board, provided with a single central goal, a series of squares, H F, 01 dillercnt colors immcdial'elysurreu uding the goal, a series of squares, I) l snrrounding: the said srpniresll and F, and four wings composed of diliereut-colored squares, all oi'thc said squares being arranged in rows at right angles to each other, as set forth.

In testimonywhereof I ai'iix mysignatnre in,

presence 01' two witnesses.

FRANK 1 ermronn.

Witnesses:

(.lnono u A. "VAIP'FS, S. J. l inlmno. 

